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David Mamet Quotes

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 30, 1947

Topics

Money Thought Violence You Hollywood

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

Good Women Integrity People Me Been

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

Love Me Place Fame Choreography

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

God Me World Feel You Know

I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

Angela Duckworth

Good Teacher Time School Lunch Year

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

Decisions Political You Know Never

I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader.

Beginning Little Things Ending You

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Technology Age Time Travel Sleep

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

Life Writing My Life Important True

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Music Sad People Look Listen Singer

It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.

Joy Easy You Out Get Sucked

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

Time Moment Artist Want Over Freeze

I'm just a regular Baltimore chick who believed in God enough to follow her dreams.

Dreams God Enough Follow Her Just

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